A Speech on Effects of Smoking

This Persuasive Speech Outline shows how you can use the successful I B C structure (Introduction … Body… Conclusion) to assist YOU in the preparation of your speech and to provide a guiding map for the AUDIENCE so they do not get lost. A. INTRODUCTION

1. Attention-Getter: Did you know smoking is bad for you and can cause a lot of danger things to your body? Have you ever realized what it can cause in the future or what it can do to you? Stop and think every time you put that nasty thing in your mouth. If you quit smoking you will live a healthy life I guarantee you! 2. Bond: Link-to Audience: Smoking every year and every day has cause thousands of people to die. It has cause diseases towards people and effected there life and caused a lot of damage throughout their life. This is why you must quit smoking for good and not even think twice because you won’t live twice. 3. “Credentials” of Speaker (Credibility): I have seen a lot my love ones die from smoking and mest up their life and future, only because they were addicted to it. It’s not only messing up there life it’s effecting other people by smoking in public or by other people and that’s called secondhand smoke.

Also over thousands of love ones that didn’t smoke died from secondhand smoke. So think about what you’re doing to other people or your love ones. 4. Destination /Objective Sentence: I’m here to let you know that this is a serious issue in life or for your life. You should take care of your health it’s the best thing to do you will have an enjoyable life. Not taking care of your health will make you sick were you can’t do anything it makes you weak. EVERYONE wants to be strong and buff, not weak and bonny. 5. Explain your Map to your Destination: Speech Preview: Keep smoking and you’ll end with no job or no family anymore. You must quit smoking because stop for a minute and think about how your future is going to be if you continue to smoke time after time. How will you deal with the consequences of struggling to stop smoking? Bottom line SMOKING KILLS it is up to you to take action and join the cause for what it is worth living for , and give it all by easily stating don’t smoke.

B. BODY of your Speech
1. Main Point #1: Over millions and thousands of people have died over smoking to much or either secondhand smoke. a. Support: For example you can get these diseases asthma, neuralgia, heart murmur, lung cancer and more that will make you get sick and weak. b. Support: Other people use it to calm them down and smoke once in awhile , but the people your smoking next to are getting that secondhand smoke and its getting inside of them. c. Support: Stopping smoking can make a big difference to your health. It is never too late to stop smoking to greatly benefit your health. For example, if you stop smoking in middle age, before having cancer or some other serious disease, you avoid most of the increased risk of death due to smoking. Transition: Create a linking statement to Point 2:

Your breath, clothes, hair, skin, and home smell of stale tobacco. You do not notice the smell if you smoke, but to non-smokers the smell is obvious and unpleasant.   2. Main Point #2: Smoking can cause you to look ugly looking and your hygiene gets low, it makes you look so nasty. a. Support: It’s a classic behavior: puffing from a cigarette makes many girls and boys feel hotter, but in reality smoking is proven to make you look older and not really glamorous. b. Support: A lot of people end having bad teeth and very stained because of the smoking habits, you can brush your teeth everyday but as long as you keep smoking there going to be ending up bad. c. Support: It actually messes up your eye vision, it makes your eyes red and slightly droopy right after you smoke.

Transition: Create a linking statement to Point 3: smoking is very expensive, and when you spend all your money that isn’t worth it, then when you get addicted to it you have to keep buying it, then what happens when you have no money?

3. Main Point #3: STOP smoking as soon as you can and quit the habit as soon you can, it’s a bad habit where people can’t stop so if you barely getting towards smoking stop well you can good choice too do! a. Support: Breaking the habit of smoking is the most important thing on your mind right now because it is part of taking care of your health, but it is also part of taking care of your family. b. Support: When you also have no money and you’re in the smoking habit it’s going to be really hard and its going to affect you a lot that’s why you stop well you can. c. Support: So if you’re ready to quit you know you need to quit, you really want to quit, But smoking has become such a huge part of your life that you just can’t imagine waking up in the morning without reaching for a cigarette, finishing a meal without lighting up or hanging out with your friends — all smokers — without smoking yourself.